Agreed, coil springs are pants.

Get yourself a cheap power probe off ebay, they are great for this kind of fault as you can apply earth or power exactly.

What size wheels and tyres?

I would say that was an original cock up, but I bet it would be an issue going into the USA.

Air suspension all day, dead reliable, how often do you hear of d2/d3/4/rr with suspension problems, thats right never!

Series ones smell bad though, because they don't have coil springs probably.

New vehicles are bloody awesome, until they go wrong and they will go wrong and cost a fortune each and every time!

Plenty of modern crap still with leaf springs on the rear axle. Series of all models are pretty crap, 90/110/defenders also crap, though people seem to get really upset when you say that, so it is always worth a mention every now and then!

Always stat first, tdi can run rad so fecked they are only fit for scrap and not over heat. Are the small coolant air bleed pipes still present? Is the coolant system pressurising by to much when at operating temperature?

I would jury rig some temporary temperature gauge set up for testing purposes, until you are sure the engine is good and you are not going to wreck it. A cheap mulitmeter that accepts K series sensors will do, or cappiliary sensors are the best

My 110 csw has one.

Handy tip for all you greasers, if you get a tapered grease gun end you can use it to grease normal nipples by simply poking it into the spring loaded ball bearing on the grease nipple, and as the pointy bit is super slim you dont waste ages...

No idea, but got to a be a grand incl parts, just for a giggle might be worth ringing the main dealer.

The lwb series models could be had with toolboxes in the top of the rear wheel arches, might be worth a look see.

I bought one of those pipe straighteners that is basically a tube with a plastic guide at each end. It’s crap.

Spend a bit of time routing the pipe nicely, nothing looks worse than a poorly bent and routed pipe. The straight bits are actually the hardest to get looking nice.

If it is not staining the air filter then do not worry.

Never mind the first time……I still do it 😁

And as I found the first time I made a pipe, remember to slide on the unions before making the second flare 🤪

I'm surprised it's 9k tbh

15yrs old, 103k and gold!

Cheap cus it's not worth much, none of the D3/D4s are really. At thier age now any one of them you buy could be about to drop a 4 figure repair bill in your lap without warning, no matter how well it's been maintained. Or worse it could write...